Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.

Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. "They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question.

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.